4th Street and 23rd Avenue one-way conversion

The downtown businessman worried the one-way plan will bottleneck traffic, cost parking before new parking is added, and landlock game-day traffic, and asked for a give-and-take that adds parking elsewhere.

The owner of the German restaurant on the corner questioned whether alternatives were considered — a pedestrian zone, metered parking, or a parking deck between the hotels — and asked for shorter-term, more flexible planning.